Bug 113604

Summary:	xterm -iconic doesn't start minimized (fixed in 208, request bump)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Colin Macdonald <cbm>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	dickey
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Colin Macdonald 2005-11-25 19:28:54 UTC

Compare:
  xload -iconic
to
  xterm -iconic

xterm doesn't start minimized (tested with Gnome (metacity) and WindowMaker).

This is probably an upstream bug but I didn't see it fixed in the changelog of
more recent versions.  The xterm author says he "respond[s] to bug reports in a
number of bug-tracking systems" so I figure this one will do!
I've emailed him the link to this bug.

Comment 1 Thomas Dickey 2005-11-26 04:22:45 UTC

This sounds like one I noticed a few months ago.  I think
I mentioned it in discussion of a bug report, but it's a
separate issue.  My note on it says:
050704
    oops -iconic doesn't work (in fvwm it starts to iconify, then bounces up)
    That breaks with the toolbar option.
    tek4014 doesn't start iconified anyway.

Comment 2 Colin Macdonald 2005-11-26 11:08:47 UTC

Oops, sorry I didn't see that note anywhere.

Did you mean that this issue is fixed in a version of xterm > patch #205?

Comment 3 Thomas Dickey 2005-11-26 11:47:22 UTC

no - I meant that I saw it, spent a little time investigating it
without seeing the solution, but (given the context of 203-206),
was spending most of my time on other problems.  I hadn't tested
that on other window managers.  It's possible that the cause is
from doing some operation on a child window rather than the shell.
I kept that in mind as I was making layout fixes - I recall coming
across some that weren't, but have the impression those fixes were
in 204 or 205.  (I'll retest this report against #207, of course).

Comment 4 Thomas Dickey 2006-01-02 13:20:51 UTC

I see the problem now - earlier I was looking in the wrong place.
There's an XtParent() in main.c that should be SHELL_OF().
That seems to work, will be in #208.

Comment 5 Colin Macdonald 2006-01-02 23:11:17 UTC

Marking resolved LATER, I'll close it when 208 is in the tree.

Thanks Thomas.

Comment 6 Colin Macdonald 2006-01-07 14:10:23 UTC

Version 208 is out which has a fix for this bug.  Request a bump in portage.

Comment 7 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-15 10:58:51 UTC

in portage